A GEORGE II SILVER EPERGNE

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A GEORGE II SILVER EPERGNE
MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM CRIPPS, LONDON, 1754

Of oval form, raised on four multi-scroll feet terminating in shells, the sides chased with a band of flowers and scrolls on a matted ground with gadrooning and pierced scrolls above, with openwork foliage enclosing birds between, the central boat-shaped basket pierced with scrolls nad diaperwork below an openwork rim, applied with flowers and scrolls, each swept end applied with a bust of Ceres, each corner applied witha multi-scroll and acanthus branch supporting a removable shaped circular dish with applied foliate rim, chased with spiral fluting, each side with a similar branch with acorn finial, with similar oval dish, the center of the central basket engraved with armorials, each dish engraved with a crest within the motto of the Order of the Bath, marked on central basket, dishes and six branches with scratch weight All 222oz.-6--overall length 25.5in.(65cm.)
(218oz., 6769gr.)

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Whitmore impaling those of Cope, as borne by Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B. of Apley, Shropshire, who succeeded his father in 1725. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Jonathan Cope, and had by her three daughters. He died in 1773 and was succeeded by his nephew and son-in-law, Thomas Whitmore who had married his daughter Mary.